Surprising absolutely no one, 8 thing that irritate [Doug] with edublogs has generated 34 comments with no sign of slowing. Meanwhile, 8 thing that [Doug] likes about edublogs threatens to shut down the Internet with five comments. ¶ The people have spoken!
Dan Meyer
Wouldn’t surprise me if The Four Slide Sales Pitch contest hit the front page of Digg this next week. Entries are gettin’ outta control so get yours in soon
! Deadline’s midnight PST Friday.
The question’s been asked, where are we selling ourselves? We envisioned a sale pitched at a business college, a teaching college, or somewhere you want to work, somewhere along the lines Chicago GSB’s originally drew, but, sincerely, take it wherever you want. Visceral, intriguing design’s gonna transcend context.
Things are gettin’ hot, blowin’ up, over at Doug’s blog, with 8 things that irritate [him] with edublogs. Lotsa comments. ¶ My contribution: “people who tell me I’m wrong.” Yeah! Hate that!
[Update: the final entries are here.]
In the spirit of Chicago Graduate School of Business’ recent announcement, we’d like to see how well you can sell yourself in four (4) picture-only slides. No audio, no video, no hyperlinks, no multimedia miscellany. Just pictures and text. Make us want you. You have a week.
Instructions
- Design your slides. Use Keynote, PowerPoint, Photoshop, a discarded tray liner from Whitecastle, whatever. Just keep the size below 1920×1080, a constraint which will affect none but the most diehard designers.
- E-mail your name and blog address (if applicable), to dan [at] mrmeyer [dot] com. Attach your slides.
- Post any reflections on the process in the comments below.
Deadline
- Friday, August 10, 23h59, Pacific Standard Time
Judges
- Christian Long (think:lab)
- Scott McLeod (Dangerously Irrelevant)
- Dan Meyer (dy/dan)
Prize
- A subscription to rockin’ good design periodical Before & After magazine.
Legal
- You own your slides, though we’ll post them here (attributed) and, in all likelihood, pick several apart.
How We Got Here
- The Dizzying Chasm, Michael McVey
- Misunderstanding Chicago, Dan Meyer
- You noticed, didn’t you?
Pat yourself on the back if you must, but know that the irony of a post on “brevity” running longer than that oft-referenced Tolstoy novel wasn’t lost on me. I took that post through seven drafts
Idle, agenda-less curiosity: does the rest of the edublogosphere get it right in one take or, if not, how many drafts do you run through on an average post? and, even after burning back a lot of brush, I knew I’d catch some heat. I blame all your Twitter-addled attention spans.Anway, to minimize reader fatigue, it’s worth mentioning that I did what anyone oughtta: add pictures! Kinda symmetrically too:
- None of you seemed to mind my four-slide sales pitch, though, and I just want to point out again how little technical skill it required:
We stole photos and scanned handwriting. The end.